Opinion KKK Justice: How Trump Got Away With Murder
You can bet that every one of the jurors believed wholeheartedly that Trump was guilty as charged. The verdict preceded the trial: innocent even if proven guilty
Bradley Burston
Bradley Burston is a Haaretz columnist and Senior Editor of Haaretz.com which publishes his blog, "A Special Place in Hell."
During the first Palestinian uprising, Burston served as Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, and was the paper's military correspondent in the 1991 Gulf War.
In the mid-1990s he covered Israeli-Arab peace talks for Reuters. In 2006, he received the Eliav-Sartawi Award for Mideast Journalism, presented at the United Nations.
A native of Los Angeles, Burston moved to Israel after graduation from Berkeley. He was part of a group which established Kibbutz Gezer, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Burston served in the IDF as a combat medic, later studying medicine in Be'er Sheva for two years before turning to journalism. He is married and has two daughters.
Opinion The Worst Man in America Is No Longer President
The ‘pro-life’ president ended his term with unprecedented executions, a health crisis rivaling a world war and a climate catastrophe. Thank God he’s gone
Opinion From Biden's Victory to COVID Vaccines, Hanukkah Miracles Are Happening in America
While Trump prays for a miracle, real ones are underway as science scores a stunning triumph and America rededicates itself to democracy
Opinion There Has Never Been a Thanksgiving Like This One
We need this night. How is this night different from all others we have known? This Thanksgiving, America is wounded to the core
Opinion Thinking of Not Voting? Get Ready for Another Decade of Trump
The U.S. president himself just supplied what may be the best argument for making the effort to vote this time. Against him
Opinion I'm Voting Against the Ugliest American – and for America the Beautiful
'Four more years' is eight too many. On November 3, I'm voting for the rebirth of hope, of idealism, of altruism, of America the Beautiful
Opinion No Statues of Trump, Ever. May His Name Be Blotted Out
But let the record show that a man named George Perry Floyd Jr. changed the world. Even in Israel we've seen it– with the police killing of Eyad Hallaq – because, in death, George Floyd forced us to look
Opinion Netanyahu, Israel's Independence Day and the Death of Expectation
A nation which has gone from hoping for the best and preparing for the worst, to Netanyahu’s all-purpose credo: This is the best you can hope for – expect nothing
Opinion Coronavirus in a Broken Holy Land: Three Personal Prayers
When all this is over, if we’re still here, may we remember to bless You by doing what we so tragically failed to do: To save the world
Opinion Raise the Black Flag at Home. Stand Up to the Tyrant Netanyahu
Corona, corona, the tyrant muses to himself, where have you been all my life?
Opinion In 2020 America, Hitler Is Winning
Donald Trump is not Hitler, but his words and actions encourage and embolden those who yearn for an Adolf of their own
Opinion Bibi, Save Yourself and Defect to Trump's U.S.A.
There’s only one reason why Netanyahu should not defect to Trump’s America at this very moment
Opinion Trump Just Turned the United States Into a Mideast Country
By killing his kindred spirit Soleimani, Trump’s ample figure assumes a closer and closer resemblance to the profile of the Middle Eastern despot
Opinion Trump’s Pitch to Israelis and Evangelicals: Make America Hate (Jews) Again
Donald Trump is a genius. Setting Jew against Jew, and Evangelical against Jew, he's reshaping the U.S.-Israel bond to his own electoral advantage
Opinion Bibi Is the Past. Ayman Odeh – Lawmaker, Israeli, Unavoidable – Is the Future
Odeh, as a child the only Muslim in a Christian school in a Jewish city in the state of Israel, is 10 times the Israeli Bibi is. One day, he may be 10 times the prime minister
Opinion Israel Election Results: Trump Just Lost His Wall — the One He Called Bibi Netanyahu
What Bibi knows is exactly what Trump, in his heart of hearts, must truly fear. The look of a different wall from the inside. The prison wall
Opinion Reigning Supremacist: The House of Netanyahu and the Jews Bibi Hates
Netanyahu has remade Israel into his bigot father's image. Such is Bibi - dutiful child of a supremacist. Obedient husband of a supremacist. Role-model father of a supremacist
Opinion Trump Has Made It Official: He Is the Greatest anti-Semite of Our Age
For years he boogalooed around the issue, dog-whistling Dixie. But he just pulled the pin off the grenade – and for electoral gain.
Opinion If There’s a Hell, Trump and Pence Will Do Eternity There. In a Cage
When Satan’s officials come to take Trump away, wearing ICE jackets, he’ll let them in with a smile and won't have the slightest glimmer of idea why
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Whatever happens now, however he weasels out of this one, we have come to know Netanyahu for what he really is, and always was
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Over the years, Netanyahu has evolved into Israel’s No.1 Holocaust exploiter
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Journalists. They help save the world from itself. They are warriors. Prize them. They're your best shot
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And behold, plagues were abroad in the land, and the people suffered grievously. And these were the plagues of the land of the Pharaoh whose name was Netanyahu
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It was the election itself that provided the surest proof that Israel under Netanyahu's leadership has transitioned to dictatorship
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He doesn't even try to hide it anymore. And his people hate him. But they'll vote for him
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By voting Bibi you're turning the government into a version of Hamas - anti-democratic, brutal, theocratic, callous, maximalist, mendacious, militarist, racist, manipulatively scapegoating in deflecting blame, fascistic
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A visit to a settlement leader whose vision of Israel’s future borders includes parts of Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon and even Iran
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To be clear, I am not suggesting that Mort Klein immigrate to Israel. Nor Sheldon Adelson. But if they lose their Bibi, where is their Zionism of America going to put them?
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Netanyahu is looking to a viciously supremacist party called Jewish Power to put his re-election campaign over the top